Button.



No. 769,053. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904y J. G. BREITENSTEIN.

BUTTON. l vAPPLHJATIIION FILED NOV. 16, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.v

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 769,053,6lated August 30, 1904. Application led November 16, 1903. Serial No. 181,301. (No model.)

T all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known th at I, .IULIUs Gr. BREITENSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oliicago, in the county of Oooh and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improve# ments in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompan ying drawings, forming a partthereof.

This invention relates to buttons whichare made with cloth face protected by a rim of hard rubber or other hard substance and which are provided with a tuft for sewing them to the garment. It consists in the-features of construction set out in the claims.

tion of my improved button, certain bof the elements being shown exaggerated in thickn ness in order to make the construction apparent. Fig. 2 is abottom or under side plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a retaining-wire. Fig. 4 is a view of the same part shown in Fig. 3 looking in the direction of the arrow 4. on said Fig. 3;- Fig. 5 isa view vsimilar to Fig. 2, showing a modified form of the retaining-wire. Fig. 6 is a section at the line 6 6 on Fig. 5.

This button comprises the shell A and collet B, clenched together in the customary manner and gripping between their flanges the face-cloth O, which covers the shell A, and inclosing between them the filling D for gripping and holding the tutt-cloth E, which protrudes through the central aperture of the collet B to form the protruding tuft e. All the parts thus described, assembled and clinched into a rigid unitary structure, are lodged in and protected by the hard marginal element of rim-piece F, said rim-piece having in its upper face a cavity for lodging the body of the button,with the face-cloth O exposed within the marginal ilange F of said rim-piece and with the tuft exposed through the central aperture of said rim-piece. The feature of my present invention consists of means for securing the remainder of the button to the part F. Said means I have shown in two forms. In the form shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4. it is a partial ring G, of wire, having the curved portion, which constitutes a halfcircle, more or less, turned inward and upward and then outward at the ends, as seen the collet at the outer side. After lodging the retainer-in the collet, as described, the remainingelements of the body of the button are assembled in the usual orderto wit, first the tuft `of cloth Br, next the lling D, and iinally the In the drawings, Figure l is an axial sec? shell A and face-cloth O, which are clenched to the collet in the usual manner-and said retainer Gis thus securely held with only the projections G G protruding exposed. The rimpiece F is chambered or bored in from both sides, leaving a diaphragm F2, through which the central aperture F20 is formed for the tuft e. The body of the button is lodged in the cavity at one side of the diaphragm, and said diaphragm is cut through at two diametrically opposite points, forming notches F11 Fu, and at the under face the diaphragm has the slopes F1? F12, extending each ninety degrees about the tutt-aperture from the notches F11 F, respec tively, to notches F13 F13, cut only part-way through the diaphragm. The button-body, comprising parts assembled and clenched together as described, having the retainer G, with its projectingvpoints Gr Gr', exposed, is lodged in the rim-piece, said retaining-points being passed through the notches F, and by a ninetydegree turn, in which the projections Gr climb the slopes F12 F12, they are brought to the notches F13, in which they Abecome engaged by reaction of the elastic retainer G, thus securing the rim-piece to the remainder of the button.

Instead Vof employing the retainer of the form shown, I sometimes use a simple straight f pin H thrust through the tuft e after the IOO by rotation with the notches F13 in the same manner as the other form. In this form the tuft by its elasticity serves to retract the ends of the pin into the notches F13 as the projections Gr are retracted by the elastic reaction of the entire element G in the other form.

I claimll. A button comprising a body consisting` of shell and collet with a cloth face clenched between the shell and collet; a securing` device protruding from the collet, and projections at opposite sides of the securing device; a rim-piece or guard recessed at one' sidev to receive the body, and apertured at the center to admit the securing element of the body, having notches extending from the central aperture which admits said projections, recesses in the margin about said aperture at the rear side to lodge said projections, and inclines leading from the notches to the recesses respectively.

2. A button comprising a body consisting of a shell and collet and the face-covering clenched between them; a tutt-cloth lodged in the collet and protruding therefrom at the center; the retaining device, G, lodged in the collet and having terminals projecting through the central aperture at opposite sides of the tuft and extending outwardly therefrom, the

rim-piece or guard recessed at the lorward side to accommodate the body, and apertured at the center to accommodate the tut't having notches at opposite sides of the central aperture and recesses in the rear face extending from the margin of the central aperture, the projections of the retainer being' adapted to enter through the notches and become en gaged with the recesses by relative rotation of the body and rim-piece.

3. A button comprising a body and a rimpiece, the body having central means for securing the button and projections at opposite sides of said central means, the rim-piece having a central aperture and lateral notches therefrom through which the securing device and the lateral projections protrude, and having at the rear face recesses with which the lateral projections become engaged upon relative rotation of the body and rim-piece.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at Chicago, Illinois, this 111th day of November, 1903.

J ULIUS G. BREITENSTEIN.

In presence of" CHAs. S. BURTON, M. GER'LRUDE ADY. 

